Word: genscher
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...peacemakers. During the past four years, many governments and organizations have offered to serve as intermediaries in the conflict between Iran and Iraq. But Iran has refused all help. The door has now opened a crack. After a two-day visit to Tehran, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher reported last week that Iran was ready to "break through the ring of isolation" and "begin a political dialogue with the West...
...Genscher was the first high-ranking Western official to set foot in Tehran since the 1979 revolution that brought...
Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to power. There were no signs during Genscher's visit that Iran's fanatical Shi'ite Muslim leaders had changed their opinion of the U.S. "devil," but West German officials found them less prone to heap verbal abuse on the West. When Genscher expressed concern about the fighting in the gulf, the Iranians said they were also eager to prevent the war from widening...
Hard economic realities have contributed to Tehran's apparent change of heart. Iran suffers from a serious balance of payments deficit. The country has had to discount its oil prices by between $2 and $5 per bbl. in order to lure tankers into gulf waters. Members of the Genscher delegation who had visited the Iranian capital before the revolution noticed a decline in the standard of living. Buildings that had been under construction five years before stood half finished...
...government a reminder." But Kohl and his ministers had little cause to celebrate: the Free Democratic Party, the small but pivotal junior partner in the governing coalition, took such a beating that it appeared to be threatened with extinction. Responding to the election setback, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher announced that he would step down as leader of the Free Democrats early next year to enable the party to develop "a new image with a new face...